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[allgotrabies]

Hey, it's Annie, you know what to do.

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[loveisall]

"Consequences for you?" he wonders. "For what you've already done?" He pulls back to look at her.

[allgotrabies]

"Yeah. Yeah, if ... You can think of anything. That isn't me not being able to be around you." She fidgets a little with her fingers in his shirt, across his shoulders.

"I don't want people to think anyone's playing favorites with me."

[loveisall]

He thinks a moment. "I think you need to talk to Jacobi," he tells her honestly. "As much as I - despise the very idea of it. He was the one you wronged. Talk to him, like you did to Quill."

[allgotrabies]

"I like Quill. But I'm never going to like Jacobi." She knows Godric isn't asking her to, but her not forgiving is such a new experience for her.

"But I'll do that."

[loveisall]

"To be clear, that isn't the punishment. That's just the first step," he says evenly, reaching up to take her hand. "And - I don't think I will ever like him, either."

He hauls himself back up to the side of the pool and takes off his shirt to wring out.

[allgotrabies]

"Do I let him pick the punishment?" Like she had asked Quill to do, so she knows the answer. She sighs and rests her arms on the side of the pool.

"Let's do my tattoo when you come back." She nudges him. "But old fashioned not with one of those electric needles."

[loveisall]

"Not necessarily. He might feel your punishment should be to jump off the ship and we can't have that."

He shrugs. "But this place is too small for you to ignore him forever. Unless that's what he wants. But we won't know until we find out. And I doubt he will approach you. At least - I would think him smarter than that."

The comment about the tattoos has him smiling. "And yes. We can do that when I'm back."

[allgotrabies]

"Okay." A slow breath. "Okay. I'll do that and when you come back, I'll tell you about it."

She scooches over and rests her chin on his knee. "I found a poem that made me think of you. And the tattoo. I've been reading." And she is so quietly proud of herself for it. "You wanna hear?"

[loveisall]

"Tell me," he says, reaching down to toy with her hair. He's proud of her for trying, for reading, but he's still surprised.

[allgotrabies]

"Okay." She clears her throat dramatically.

"We can build a tree-house in the pine trees
We can keep our secrets buried underneath
Wild flowers crushed between your fingers
Clinging to the wild things that raised us

Compass points you home
Calling out from the east
Compass points you anywhere
Closer to me

If we make it out alive, from the depths of the sea
Compass points you anywhere
Closer to me

Where you are, I will be
Miles high, in the deep
Where you are, I will be
Anywhere, in between.

It made me think of when you decided on that...what'd you call it? The compass symbol?"

[loveisall]

"Vegvisir," he supplies easily. "I like it, Annie. It's a beautiful poem." He leans back on his hands, taking a breath.

[allgotrabies]

She climbs out and sits by him. "I'm gonna go shower. And sleep." She doesn't want to be awake when he leaves. "You shouldn't go home smelling like chlorine though. Go home smelling like that soap in the bathroom."

[loveisall]

He takes her hand, understanding her reasoning. "Go sleep," he tells her. "I will go to Archer's for the rest of the evening." There isn't much time left anyway. "And I won't be gone long."